Friday, January 24, 1936. THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Page Seven Funeral Services Held For Miss Mag Smith, 86 The Week in Vass Miss Mary Beasley visited her, McLean Saturday evening. Mrs. N. N. brother, B. F. Beasley, of Raleigh; McLean, who has been confined to from Friday until Sunday. j her bed for the past three weeks, is The Rev. Charles A. Lewrence of | getting better. I Falkland spent a day and night of last' B. M. Parker of Rockingham spent the week-end visiting his brothers, J. J. Parker and A. B. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. W. C, Leslie and Mi.ss Mar jorie Leslie spent Friday in Durham. Miss McCrummen of West End, Miss Currie of Southern Pines, Miss Lang of Carthago and Miss Buchanan of Broadway, members of the local Last Rites for Kindly Soul Held Thursday in Cypress I’resby- terian Church Funeral services fcr Miss Smith, 86, were held in Cypress Pres- j town. byterian Church several miles east of: Edgar Oldham of Polkton was at Vass at 11 o’clock Thursday morning week-«nd. with the Rev. L. M. Hall, pastor of the Va.ss Methodist Church and the Rev. M. D. McNeill, Presbyterian minister of Cameron, officiating. A chcir composed of voices from the Cypress community and Vass sang,! jjjg great-aunt. Miss Mag Smith. With ' school faculty, spent the week-end at one of the selections being Miss his cousin, Elwin Hamilton, Smith’s favorite song, “When the Roll from Godwin, who attends State Cel ia Called Up Yonder.” j lege. The pallbearers were Ue;mond Me-! Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hamilton, Craney, Elwin and Mack Hamilton, Mack Hamilton, and Mrs. Eula Ham- Andrew Muse Hemphill, Duncan Me-, ilton Wil.son, all of Godwin, were here Gill and Frederick L. Taylor. The'attend the funeral of beautiful floral designs were carried ' Mag Smith, by four of Miss Smith’s great-nieces, Miss Olera McCraney McGill, Mrs. , I Robert Leslie cf Rockingham vis- ' I ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Leslie Sunday. i Relmond McCraney was called [ home from State College, Raleigh,; I last week on account of the death ot Grains of Sand hills and over Drowning Creek in her I ent Teachers Association held in the yarn for the Post. Walter Gilkyson' high school building on Monday »•- Elizabeth McCraney Muse, Mrs. Eula ; Hamilton Wilson and Mrs. Glennie i Thompson Blevins, and Miss Pauline: Thompson. Miss Smith was the last of the four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jack j Smith. She was born and reared in | the Lobelia section of Hoke caunty and spent all of her life there with the exception of the last few years, | which were spent in Vass in the home ; of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McCraney, her nephew and niece, where she was ten- | derly cared for. She was a member of the Vass Methodist Church, and in her earlier life was one of the most ^ useful women in her commimity, al-1 ways t> be found doing her best to; lighten the load in homes where there was sickness or death. Gentle and | kind, her influence was ever for the' better way of living. i Miss Smith is survived by a num ber of nieces and nephews, among A’hom are Mrs. E. B. Thompson of "'ameron Route 1, Mrs. Eugene Ham- I Iton of Godwin, Smith McCraney of ?t. Paul and W. D. McCraney of Vass. Horton Keith and a friend from Durham were dinner guests of Hor ton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Keith, on Thursday evening of last week. Friends of Mrs. Clayton Evans will be glad to know that her condition has shown marked improvement since Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McLean of Cameron visited Mr. and Mrs. N. N. their respective homes. Miss Pauline Thompson of Burling ton visited her aunt, Mrs. W. D. Mc Craney last week. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. McLauchlin of Fayetteville were in town Sunday. Miss Eloise Brooks returned to Hallsboro Saturday to resume her duties as a teacher in the school there. She was accompanied by Mrs. G. W. Brooks andl Mi.ss Jennie Cam eron. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gladstone were j visitors in Sanford and Chapel Hill Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Griffin and children of Hamlet spent last week end with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Grif fin. 1 Now the tables are turned. They are having cold as is cold and snow as is snow up north, and we are en joying our usual warm sunshine, our winter (we trust) behind us. A Moore county young woman transferred from one federal job to another recently found herself lo cated in St. Louis. A'oout 2,500 peo ple were in her department of gov ernment work. Her chief created some undefincable air of nostalgia for her. Something that suggested home and Noith Carolina. On closer acquaint ance she discovered he was from Pittsboro, from neighboring Chat- I ham. i The weather man predicted snow ; for us in the recent blizzard that j swept out of the west and moved on north. Aunt Hannah didn’t predict sn w. She knows when to do her pre- dictin.’ S.veral weeks ago she watch ed the family cat doing some thor ough scrubbing. ‘‘See dat cat. De way she am washin’ huself. Dat show I mean snow.” And snow it did. Be fore we let that cat mess things up again with another snow storm this winter we’ll get hei- dry cleaned. in the last Colliers. Generally a fa miliar face from the magazines. Friends and neighbors, all of them, a pleasant factor. Cameron and Community Morristown, Tenn., where he has been on the t bacco market. The following persons joined the Cameron Presbyterian Church last Sunday evening by letter: Martin J. McFadyen and M, D. Mclver; by statement, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Aber- VEW BOOKS .ANNOUNCED BV .SOUTHERN PINT.S LIBR.AKV The Woman’s Club held its January meeting last Thursday afternoon with the president, Mrs. Raymond 'rhomas, presiding, A letter written by Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, to the State Highway Commi.ssion urging the oil ing cf the main road through town, was read by Mrs. Muse and the club; nathy. voted to mail the letter as read. Club j hostesses were Mesdames J. M. Guth-1 JACKSON SPRINGS rie, J. D. McLean, H. D. Tally, W. M.' Wooten and Winslow Sellars.! Currie spent the week-end Miss Cora Harris of Charlotte,!his family here, having recent- cf the F'ederal Housing Admin-1 taken a job at Sanford, istiation, was introduced by the I Jesse Thomas has returned to Fort president. Miss Harris, in an enter-' Bragg after a 10-day furlough with taining and clear manner, presented , father, C. A. Thomas, her svibject, explaining just how gov- i C. K. Dowd was the New books at the Southern Pines Li- irary include the following; Fiction—A Stone Came Rolling, fielding Burke; The Sound Wagon, r. S. Stribling; Victorious Troy, John Masefield; The Stars Look Dow’n, A J. Cronin; White Ladies, Francis Brett Young; Men and Brethern, James Cozzens; From Death to Morn ing, Thcmas Wolfe. M.vst(<|ries Thirteen Steps, Whit man Chambers; Murder At The Pic tures, George Harmon Cox; The Lea gue of Frightened Men, Rex Stout; Headed for the Hearse. Jonathan Lat imer. Non-Fiction — Discovery, Admiial Richard E. Byrd, Albert of Belgium and England Speaks, Philip Gibbs; Sawdust Caesar, Gilbert Seldes; Last Vol. (6th.) Our Times, by Mark Sullivan; Will Rogers, P. J. O'Brien; The Next Hundred Years: Unfinished Business of Science, by Dr. C. C. Fur nas; In The Steps of The Master, H. V. Horton. Juvenile—The Box of Delights, John Masefield; Top Gallant. Hedway. Replacements—Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, (Modern Library). ernment loans could be secured with which houses could be repaired, im proved, painted, etc., and even loans sufficient for new houses could be arranged. Mrs. Loula Muse gave an informal talk on her northern visit last spring. Miss Thurla Ccle and Mrs. Jewell Hemphill graciously entertained the Merry-Makers last Friday evening at the home of Miss Cole. Three tables of bridge and on? of rook were in play and Mrs. C. N. Eckerson won top score in bridge. Mrs. Alfred Graham was winner of the rook prize. week-end guest of his sister, Mrs. J. P. Rich ardson. Miss EWith Markham spent Sunday here with her mother, Mrs. Ada Markham. B. W'. Walker of High Point spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Cole. Alton Smith and R. H. Rcss spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. j and Mrs. Colon Smith. i Numerous signs point to Spring. W. G. Layne returned Monday to' One of the mcst emphatic indications Just as soon as we accustom our selves to some of the new things we have to bump into in our fast mov ing age, along comes another jolt. Some cne breaks the news to us we can’t use our good old reliable pole star forever. And here we thought Polaris was loyal and steadfast. It seems that he is running away from us about 1,380,000 miles a day, and that the brilliant Vega will take his place and become the pole star. New we have that to worry about. To know he is not the unernng guide we thought him to be is depressing. Losing Polaris is something of a shake-up, although it is rot scheduled to take place for 11,.500 years. And while we are up in the stars, Cassiopeia, the bright constellation near Polaris, shines bright and clear these winter nights. Cassiopeia was ati Ethiopean queen, mother of An dromeda. We are turning our heads towards far away Africa these days in watchful waiting for a look at any thing those folks do, unmindful of an Ethiopean queen in plain sight from our owTi front yard. Mayesville. I A. C. Carter and M. M. Poole are attending court in Carthage this i week. The two Sunday School classes of ! Stubbs has returned home young people of the Baptist church ' the Moore Ccunty Hospital held a Leap Year .social at the home | wheie he underwent an operation two When you are on a horse and try to get by an automobile it seems as if the general run of drivers show little consideration for you. When you get' ^he meeting back in your car you are positive j — h iseback riders generously share more than half the road. The angle of vision has something to do with a changing picture. ' Angel;> Montesanti, Jr., knows | news when he sees it. He brought this item to the office, and though it isn’t local, it’s encouraging to all of us who think we are getting on in years: Moscow, Jan. 18.—A man aged 130 is still earning his living as a cooper | at Sadovaya, a village in the North eastern Caucasu.-^. He is Tishkin, son of a long-lived family. His father died at the age of 137 and his mother at 117. In his youth Tishkin was a fisher man, but for the past 80 years he i has worked as a cooper. He enjoys excellent health. tcrnoon. Dr. Cheatham addresses the gioup on “Child Training,” and wa* heard with interest by the large niun- bcr in attendance. Si lections by the Carthage High School Glee Club were a pleasing feature of the pro gram. Mrs. Charles Cox is pre.si f the organization and prosi